Sea lice eating everything. : Landbased Fishing

shadymad · Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 9:54 pm Post subject: Sea lice eating everything.

Hey everyone,was out for a bit of a fish at channel island sunday and had some livies out for the run in
tide in the late arvy,found the baits being eatin by sea lice.Whats the go with these critters they were swarming
all over my now dead baits.Anyone know if its a tidal thing or this time of year when they appear.Noticed them last
weekend with squid baits as well off channel island bridge.

deano · Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 10:52 pm Post subject: Re: Sea lice eating everything.

i got that out around the perons a couple of months ago...... consequently bugger all fish too

shadymad · Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 8:01 pm Post subject: Re: Sea lice eating everything.

yeah same here no fish when lice where around

Matt Flynn · Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 12:37 am Post subject: Re: Sea lice eating everything.

Used to get them at times in Adelaide, you would chuck out a whole tommy for bait for big snapper, and wind in a skin and skeleton.

Must be a bl..dy nuisance if you are a big fish trying to have a snooze, way worse than mozzies :lol:

Never had a major problem with them in Darwin, they bit my daughter at Vesteys Beach, sounded like she had been stung by a box jelly ...

shadymad · Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 10:06 am Post subject: Re: Sea lice eating everything.

Yeah Matt they were swarming over the bait that much that u couldn't see it was a mullet
anymore.

JewieQueen · Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 5:27 pm Post subject: Re: Sea lice eating everything.

Yeah, those bl..dy things are nasty if they bite you. You get a few crawling out of the od big Jewies nostrills over the Apsley Strait, probably other fish and other places to.

SteveB · Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 8:12 pm Post subject: Re: Sea lice eating everything.

I remember them in plague proportions in Adelaide during the eighties as well. Horrible things.

norrs · Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 11:01 am Post subject: Re: Sea lice eating everything.

yeah there are still heaps of them in the Adelaide. Actually the other day I caught a fish at middle arm and there were two of them on the fishes tongue and found a few on other fish through the day too.

BarraMick · Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 3:21 pm Post subject: Re: Sea lice eating everything.

bl..dy sea lice. makes you think twice when they bite you in the ocean when swimming. once you've seen them in the flesh.

seano · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 9:38 am Post subject: Re: Sea lice eating everything.

Out at the Timor Box all the fish come off the bottom at night because of the sea lice. Often traps left over night would come up with fish that were just skin and bone-totally eaten alive!

DOUG · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 9:42 am Post subject: Re: Sea lice eating everything.

That's a different type isn't it seano??? Not the common lice around in close ! Have heard of that to tho in the traps with just fleshless frames coming up

seano · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 10:39 am Post subject: Re: Sea lice eating everything.

Dunno Doug- look the same to me.

back-cast · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 6:53 pm Post subject: Re: Sea lice eating everything.

Stinking bait fishermen.... LMFAO.....

Just soak the bait in Diesel... usually works for me..... or just don't use bait... that will solve the issue....

Nato1983 · Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 10:08 pm Post subject: Re: Sea lice eating everything.

They aren't lice they are a parasite, we got them in the harbor a few months back an jumped on the iPhone for a bit of google action an found out they actually eat the fishes tongue an live in it's mouth in place of it's tongue eating the scraps that are left from when the fish feeds. Horrible horrible little creatures!

seano · Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2011 11:22 pm Post subject: Re: Sea lice eating everything.

Different creature, lice eat the whole fish!

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